Dave Zirin

This story of blatant pay-for-access corruption is excellent reporting, but the Times hides it behind a very bland headline and lead art that does nothing for the story.

Here is a GIFT LINK for the article, because everyone should read it:
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/u...

this is an absolute twenty alarm fire and I just cannot bring myself to believe capital, in one way or another, isn’t going to reel him in on this.

we can’t have a real economy without the goddamn labor numbers. it just doesn’t work.

And they gotta stop texting me for money every time they make an ineffectual speech no one notices.

You gotta grow up, Solarman. Dems aren't "victims". They are one of the two major political parties of the most powerful country on earth. If you are treating them like "victims" you are both giving them a pass for their meekness and trivializing the actual victims the Dems are not standing up for.

It's Garland. Trump should have been frog walked January 7th. Institutionalist cowards.

It reminds me of how soft they've been on Musk and the tech-oligarchs because they want to "mend fences" and get that bag, no matter how much bile the tech-bros spew or algorithms they rig. Some might see a rich pederast on a private jet. Schumer and Jeffries see potential donors!

Everyday the Dems are not saying that it constitutes a moral crisis to have an alleged kiddie raper in the oval office, is a failure. Everyday they aren't calling for the release of all unredacted files or mocking Maxwell's forthcoming lies about Trump's innocence (just loves kids!) is malpractice.

The latest in a lifetime of business, political and impeachable quid pro quos. But this is not a quid pro quo for some Jersey swampland or a qpp to extort a foreign leader for political dirt. This is a qpp so a pimp/pederast/princess can tell the world that Trump doesn’t rape kids. A golden age!

YouTube video by Road Less Marveled May 1, 1969: Fred Rogers testifies before the Senate Subcommittee on Communications

With news that the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is shutting down due to Trump’s meddling, it’s worth watching Mr. Rogers testifying to the Senate about the real value of what we’ve all lost.

That Trump officials even still talk to this tin-hatted pimple tells you what constituency they are worried about. They really don’t care if the rest of the country is just like, “Yeah. The President rapes kids. Market steady overall.”

We are very far over the cliff here folks

Wall Street Journal headline and deck: "New York Shooting Puts Mamdani on the Spot Over Policing Views: The killing of four people in a Midtown office building rattled a city where mass attacks are rare and violent crime has declined."

It's really weird to demand accountability from a NYC mayoral candidate for a deadly NYC shooting rather than the current NYC mayor, an ex-cop who campaigned on a "tough on crime" platform and promptly got indicted for crimes

Zuckerberg wants us to put a “kick me” sign on our faces so we can....look like him? Mr. “Masculine Energy”?

The universal ethic to not punch someone wearing glasses is going to be challenged like never before.

@natashalennard.bsky.social is such an antidote for both easy platitudes and tough days ahead

This is my friend.

His name is Christian Smalls.

He founded the Amazon Labor union

Not as a professional activist, but as a worker who decided he’d had enough.

Recently, he was beaten and detained by the IDF

And no one in the MSM is talking about it.

paydayreport.com/amazon-union...

I think when he gets challenged he just hangs himself more because he gets flustered. Also it’s good to see a fearless media for at least a fleeting moment

How is nobody yelling out “NAME THEM.” Access-addicted cowards.

What an incredible time to live in when brazenly antisemitic politicians are willing to destroy this country and starve a people over the objections of Jews and in defense of a genocidal ethno-state that’s younger than my dad. As a proud Jew, please listen to me, Christian Zionists. Do fuck off.

In latest poll a majority of NYC Jewish voters are voting Mamdani. Yet CNN’s Kacie Hunt asked Andrew Cuomo (both non-Jews) about Mamdani “talking about” a slogan he never said that they claim means something it decidedly does not. Either we’re suicidally stupid or Kasie Hunt is a hack. Your call.

US labor activist Chris Smalls assaulted by IDF during Gaza aid trip, group says Freedom Flotilla Coalition says Smalls was ‘choked and kicked’ after aid ship trying to reach Gaza was intercepted

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Thank you

Hulk Hogan Was a Racist, Liar, and Scab In the 1980s, the professional wrestler portrayed himself as an all-American hero—but he was really a “jabroni” the entire time.

www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Getting a lot of Hogan stans sending me angry, bigoted notes because of the article I wrote about his repugnant life. Many are ending their missives with HH. And they don’t mean Hulk Hogan. That guy really brought out the best in people.

Wolf is missing the end of this sentence…..”in order to distract attention from his alleged rampant pedophilia.”

My friend Dwight Muhammad Qawi
Died yesterday. He was a generous, thoughtful political person who helped found the first boxing union, JAB. A terrific mind, he died of complications due to dementia. It had been too long, due to his condition, since we spoke. I miss him already.

Great point

The second highest number of MLB players born outside the USA were born in Venezuela. The league needs to say something. The union NEEDS to say something. And MLB players born in the USA need to wake the fuck up and stand with their teammates. And Rubio is a pathetic, fame-hungry abuser of children.

Wildcat strike

Read of the day on hockey and racism. Thank you Evan Moore! firstandpen.com/racism-in-ca...